Hong
Kong, September 25,
2017 – Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) today continued its Internet of
Things innovation drive with the launch of an extended Cumulocity IoT technology portfolio
for cloud-based IoT platform services enablement. Cumulocity IoT will address
today’s market demand for easy, fast, and scalable IoT solutions to support
enterprises of all sizes, regardless of the level of sophistication of their
IoT requirements.

Recent
market research shows that whereas nearly 90 percent of executives surveyed
feel the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) is critical to their companies’
success, only 16 percent have a comprehensive IoT roadmap. The new Cumulocity
IoT portfolio addresses this gap by offering self-service IoT solutions to
enable organizations to develop their own IoT applications and solutions. Supporting
customers, partners and suppliers through innovative, collaborative digital
business models and “smart” IoT products and services is the driving force
behind Software AG’s portfolio strategy.

The Cumulocity IoT portfolio operates at the edge, in the cloud or on premise – giving
total customer freedom and choice in designing, building, deploying and
upgrading enterprise IoT platform, solutions and services. It
includes a range of pre-packaged solutions such as Condition Monitoring,
Predictive Maintenance and Track & Trace, as well as quick and easy device
and sensor management, thus bringing the worlds of IT and operational
technology (OT) together.

This
freedom of choice allows for faster IoT innovation and adoption at a customer
driven pace: from streamlining and efficiency of enterprise production
processes – through total customer interaction and increased retention – by
developing digital business models and the smart products and services demanded
by today’s digital markets.

Cumulocity
IoT brings together the power of Software AG’s Digital Business Platform and the
original Cumulocity products portfolio into a single, comprehensive and leading
IoT portfolio. The Cumulocity IoT portfolio will take full advantage of
Software AG’s industry-leading integration, business process, advanced
analytics and machine learning capabilities, based on its heritage in
enterprise middleware platform leadership.

Wolfram Jost, Chief Technology Officer, Software
AG, noted: “Cumulocity IoT is unique in that it provides enterprises with the
ability to very quickly start limited scale, cloud-based IoT projects and, as
their sophistication grows, be confident to build IoT platform and IoT services
that will grow effortlessly with them. Enterprises can develop and implement
IoT services at the optimal balance between risk and ambition, at their pace,
at their choice. Cumulocity IoT is already in use by leading technology
companies like Deutsche Telekom, Gardner Denver, Octo Telematics, NTT
Communication, Reliance Group, and many more. This gives us a head start in our
ambition to become a leading Technology provider in the IoT domain.”

Jost
continued: “We recently announced a joint venture in the IoT area which fully
underlines our commitment to this growing market. The joint venture called ADAMOS (Adaptive Manufacturing Open Solutions) is a major IoT
collaborative alliance with the leading manufacturing enterprises Dürr, Zeiss,
DMG Mori and ASM PT. The purpose of this IoT alliance is to establish global
industry standards for the manufacturing sector using Software AG’s Cumulocity
IoT as the technology foundation. ADAMOS partners and their customers will be
able to leverage a comprehensive IoT platform and services at a fraction of the
cost of developing their own solutions in a significantly shorter period of
time.”

Anneliese
Schulz, Vice President, Software AG Asia, noted: “Worldwide spending on the IoT is growing rapidly, and it is Asia-Pacific
that is set to lead the growth in IoT spending, with analysts expecting it to
be at least 40 percent of the worldwide total. Software AG partners with best-of-breed
companies that enable connecting things to edge analytics, to machine learning
and to industry solutions to provide the most complete end-to-end IoT ecosystem
in the industry available here in Asia.”